Quotes about Youth

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful. Beauty's attractive, and we don't want people to be attracted by old things. We want them to like the new ones." "But the new ones are so stupid and horrible.

We haven't any use for old things here." "Even when they're beautiful?" "Particularly when they're beautiful.

Outliving beauty's outward with a mind that doth renew swifter than blood decays.

We preserve them from diseases. We keep their internal secretions artificially balanced at a youthful equilibrium. We don't permit their magnesium-calcium ratio to fall below what it was at thirty. We give them transfusions of young blood. We keep their metabolism permanently stimulated.

When you're young, you're always wondering when you're actually going to feel like a grownup. And I think you probably fear it, in a sense, too. There's a danger to feeling like an adult... like this whimsical kid in you is going to die or something. And then all of a sudden, one day you kind of feel like an adult and it's really nice.

The older you get, the fewer slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?

Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age.

The most aggravating thing about the younger generation is that I no longer belong to it.

There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

I want to die young at a ripe old age.

Our greatest national resource is the minds of our children.